Charlemont Grants scheme is open to applications until 23 October. This scheme is a travel grant awarded to outstanding early career researchers working in the humanities, social sciences, or sciences. Learn more here: https://www.ria.ie/grants/charlemont-grants/ @lswalescddcymru.bsky.social

Very much this. The IHR really is open to everyone and this includes our common room and our library as well as our wonderful seminars. All free, all welcome!

This went completely under my radar. A rewilded Glen of the Downs Golf Course that creates an unexpected corridor between the GOTDs, Kindlestown Wood and the Little Sugar Loaf 🤯 www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

I’m having intro chats with dissertation students this fortnight, and one of them asked which historians I’d recommend for beautiful writing they could absorb to further develop their own writing style. So, gang, which are your favourite *writers* among historians, any time, any topic, any place. 🗃️

Digitization alert! We recently digitized materials by and about Irish patriot and suffragist Maud Gonne. The materials include correspondence, photo, articles, Women's Prisoners' Defence League records, and more. Check them out: https://findingaids.bc.edu/repositories/2/resources/254/digitized

“Stirring Words is a literary magazine dedicated to imaginative food writing, rooted in the Gastronomy and Food Studies at TU Dublin” Some wonderful writing here.

Right now, just a few powerful polluters are holding the whole world hostage - stopping a Plastics Treaty that could protect our health, wildlife, and planet. Join me today and speak up for a strong global policy to protect us from plastic pollution! action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-08...

The Ó Cléirigh seminars in @ucddublin.bsky.social resume on 10 Oct 2025. Fáilte roimh chách /all welcome. And feel free to re-post.

Really proud to publish this fantastic essay by Olga on Elsewhere today. “… it was not us they were curing but those who never lived to experience the smell of Vietnamese ointments or a bitter taste of thymus syrups - my great-grandmother’s family lost in the tumultuous Bolshevik 1920s.”

Reuters: We asked major AI chatbots to help craft a phishing scam. They did. From fake charities to urgent pleas, the bots delivered. This investigation shows how generative AI is fueling fraud — and why it’s so hard to stop. Read our findings here: reut.rs/3K400yU

Powerful research by @speakerconolly.bsky.social on the links between #TrinityCollegeDublin and #NorthKerry drb.ie/tcds-forgott...

Darach doing God's work here.

As the EU is mulling a Protein Strategy to bolster sustainable food systems, @easac.bsky.social has examined the growing world of meat alternatives, from plant-based and insect-derived proteins to cultivated meat and has released a report of its findings: easac.eu/fileadmin/us...

Just 1 day left to speak up for nature! Across Europe, our forests are thinning, our rivers are drying, and our wildlife is vanishing. Now the European Commission wants to weaken the laws that protect them. Tell them to keep their #HandsOffNature. Speak up now: environmentalpillar.ie/hands-off-na...

“The balance of power is moving towards the simple rubric of likes, sends, hearts, forwards, views, headcounts in a queue. This is the maths of the fear of missing out, and it’s responsible for 80% of my biggest food mistakes.”

A new trade deal with South America called the EU-Mercosur deal would bring more food grown with banned pesticides into Europe, threatening our health and the livelihood of European farmers. Act NOW to protect Europe’s food standards #StopMercosur action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-02...

@mrkocnnll.bsky.social author, journalist and @irishtimes.com contributor, shared with us his fears about the future of AI and Creativity, as part of RIA Discourse Series. Learn more about AI and Creativity here: https://www.ria.ie/blog/discourse-series-ai-and-creativity/ #RIA #DiscourseSeries

1/ Next Monday 8th South Dublin County Council will vote to request a national moratorium on data centre expansion in Ireland due to the enormous toll this industry is taking on our water, energy, bills and resources. We are inviting everyone who lives in the area to support us by…

🚨The European Commission want to roll back vital environmental protections under the Trojan Horse of “simplification” We have just 10 days to tell them #HandsOFFNature Their “Red Tape” is our nature, our home, our right! 📢 Speak up now using our tool environmentalpillar.ie/hands-off-na...

We are delighted to announce that 'Knowth' (RIA, 2024, ed. Helena King) has been awarded the prestigious @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social Book Prize at the opening ceremony of the 31st EAA Annual Meeting on 2 September 2025. Find out more at https://shop.ria.ie/products/knowth

Dia dhaoibh, a chairde! The Northern Ireland Place-Name Project has just landed on Bluesky. We will be sharing stories, history and a few surprises behind our local place-names. Do you have ideas on what type of content you would like to see? Maps, archives or just fun facts? Let us know below 😀

Expect your mobile to go off 3pm Sunday! Be prepared for a test of the Govt's emergency alert system. Full info... www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2025/09... LIVING WITH DOMESTIC ABUSE? If you've a hidden mobile, you the link above has details of how to opt out of the alert. Pls share

“You also exist in links you have text me, Google Maps locations of the food spots you wanted to try. You are in the stream of one-tick messages I’ve sent you since I learned of your passing, trying to make sense of it all. You exist in meals, too, moments I cherish the most.”

From what we've been told - its not a fish kill- its an everything kill for over 40 miles of river. Insects, birds, mammals also impacted. This should, by now, be a serious criminal matter.

New Gist: The Presidential Selection The time is ticking down to pick the candidates to replace Michael D. We take a tour around through the people looking to define the next seven/ fourteen years of Ireland. This is the Gist. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...

Scréachóg is a screechy bird: so Scréachóg Reilige = Graveyard Screecher aka Barn Owl, Scréachóg Choille = Wood Screecher aka Jay and Scréachóg Thrá = Beach Screecher aka Tern. #Speirgorm

GenAI is the informational equivalent of hummingbird feeders filled with sucralose. It's wildlife who die because their stomachs are filled with plastic. It's a child seeing a stranger from behind and thinking it's their mother. It's the uncanny forced upon an entire world, and it's obscene.

"Walk on air against your better judgement." Seamus Heaney's grave is located in a corner of the graveyard adjoining St Mary's parish church in Bellaghy, close to that of his parents and other members of the family. Seamus Heaney who died on this day 2013.

A special benefit performance of The Weir which will be held in honour of the late actor and broadcaster Seán Rocks, and St Francis Hospice, Dublin on Wednesday, 3 September at 2:30pm at the 3Olympia Theatre. www.rte.ie/entertainmen...

One of the nice bonds still connecting us with the first half of the twentieth century is Caren Marsh Doll, now 106. She was the body-double for Judy Garland in 1939’s Wizard of Oz! Reportedly it is her feet in close up that click the heels of the ruby slippers. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caren_M...

Well done to everyone who worked to make this happen and I’m very pleased to see my university involved in this.

A little reminder that submission date for papers for Dublin Gastronomy Symposium 2026 is September 15th. Theme of Food and Crisis/Hope arrow.tudublin.ie/dgs/

Have you seen this hornet? Nest seen in sycamore tree on south side of Cork city. Sightings to be reported to NPWS. www.rte.ie/news/2025/08...

Wonderful video from #CleanCoasts about Sally and her human Tony who litter pick on Sandymount Strand in Dublin every day Latest Irish Business Against Litter survey has shown great improvements on beaches. It's not come about by magic, but by the heroic efforts of so many like Sally and Tony 👏

Shaking up my essay reading list for the new academic year (undergrads - writers). What essays would you absolutely recommend by Irish writers and everyone else? #essayreadinglist

Jean Richie recording Séamus Ennis in the early 1950s. Photo: George Pickow

Trying to do one thing, no matter how small, a day. Here's today's small thing, maybe you could sign too #Palestine #PalestineAction #Gaza www.amnesty.ie/urgent_actio...

While this is being reported as a "fish kill" in the media, it is actually a *river* kill. This is ecocide and – at best – someone will pay a small monetary fine for wiping out a massive ecosystem. www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...

Huge thanks to the Irish Independent for covering this, (I've just seen a BBC article about a musician this has happened to). For readers, the solution is to buy real books in independent bookshops, a win win for everyone and a lose for the scammers. If you prefer ebooks, be very careful out there 🤯

Heck of a good article here from @dpcarrington.bsky.social More of this, please @theguardian.com ! ‘People just lie’: How Riverford’s Guy Singh-Watson became the most brutally honest farmer in Britain www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Came across this album of Dublin shop photos from 1960s - 1980s. It's not the focus, but the amount of dereliction and ruined buildings in really something. www.flickr.com/photos/dubli...

I have done a fair bit of reading for #WomenInTranslationMonth, but I have NOT been yelling enough about it, so it's time for a thread of all the Women in Translation books I have read this month:

"Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way." EL Doctorow

Some gems from 1902.

Reposting this for folks who want to control the AI-ification of their work posted on Academia[dot]edu.

I'm going to be Táin-posting for the foreseeable future.

Is Lucy Dublin's first Ukrainian café? Named after the chef's grandmother, we couldn't get enough of the gold-crusted pyrizhky buns, varenyky dumplings with fried onions and sour cream, and Ukraine's answer to boxty... www.allthefood.ie/single-post/the-two-minute-review-lucy

"Lots of people who are trying to build data centres will fail,” said one banker who helps arrange financing for AI.... "We are in that period where the capital markets are crazy enough to throw money at almost anything. I am curious to see the next phase and whether rationality prevails."

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